Glover v. Fisher
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a bill filed by the appellant, in the Stephenson Circuit Court, to compel a specific performance. The cause was heard on bill, answers and proof, by Sheldon, Judge, at the March term, 1850, of that Court, and the bill was dismissed. The appellant, complainant below, brought the cause to this Court, assigning for error the dismissal of the bill. The whole case is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Mr. Justice Catón :
This bill was filed by the purchaser, to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of land. The bill sets forth a contract, entered into between the parties, on the 19th of April, 1847, by which Glover agreed to pay Fisher, for the premises in question, two thousand one hundred dollars—of which, the sum of nine hundred dollars was to be paid at the execution of the agreement—four hundred dollars on the first day of October following—and the remaining eight hundred dollars on the first day of May, 1848; at which time Fisher agreed to execute a…
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